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For NobodysHome and the gang:
That was absolutely, brutally accurate; far more accurate than most Honest Trailers.
True Fact: Redfail had its first major update. I uninstalled the game instead of letting it update. The gameplay was -SO- bad that just fixing the bugs couldn't save it.
EDIT: Some people throw their shoes when they're angry. I throw everything.
EDIT 2: Just watched Angry Joe, and yes, his "multiplayer" experience was exactly the same as ours. "This is the fifth time we have to restart..."
Only 5? We had to keep restarting until Shiro came up with the brilliant idea of having the fastest machine host. If you don't do that, Redfall won't run in multiplayer at all...
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Apparently.
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Fantasy NPC: Amanah Hathunah XII.
An inevitable guardian of a loveless alliance-sealing marriage.
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Fantasy NPC: Amanah Hathunah XII.
An inevitable guardian of a loveless alliance-sealing marriage.
nice work as always, drejk!
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Headline in the San Francisco Chronicle: "A dangerous heat wave is expected to hit Northern California later this week..."
Weather Underground: "Yeah, you might get into the 70s by Thursday..."
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The aduantayge of fihghting all yvennge in an unvenytlated gymnasium is that one doth getteth an duello and an sauna at ye saime tym.
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Headline in the San Francisco Chronicle: "A dangerous heat wave is expected to hit Northern California later this week..."
Weather Underground: "Yeah, you might get into the 70s by Thursday..."
Even weirder. "Temperatures are expected to hit 100 in the Central Valley, 90 inland, and high 70s or low 80s around the bay."
Er... in other words, "Absolutely normal weather for July, instead of the eternal darkness and cold we've been living in all Spring and early Summer?"
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100 is not normal. That's the temperature of death.
And yes, I that is supposed to be 100 in Fahrenheit, it's still abominable temperature.
I have uninstalled (for now, I might go back later to it) Ghostwire: Tokyo. The game has some nice aspects, but it's controls were annoying—apparently you need to tamper with camera settings to get better movement, which I read after hitting uninstall.
Now I am giving try to the Remnant: From The Ashes, another game from this month's humble choice. It is compared to Dark Souls with guns in reviews, which might be a very mixed bag for me. We'll see how it will work out.
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100 is not normal. That's the temperature of death.
And yes, I that is supposed to be 100 in Fahrenheit, it's still abominable temperature.
What I learned while living in Davis: Once the temperature is over 98, it's not worth getting in the car -- just bike everywhere.
Amazingly enough, the self-generated breeze and evaporation is MUCH better than a car with crappy AC. Once it gets over 106, you just stop going out.
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Oh, it's going to be hard to be motivated for the rest of the week.
Yesterday I worked my tail off to get out a video for early review in the hopes of it being final by Friday. The immediate feedback was, "The audio is unacceptable and you need to re-script it."
That's honestly not that big of a deal; I've contacted one of our professional voiceover people so the audio will be HIS problem, and I'm almost done with the script. At which point it'll be another day to fix everything.
Which leaves... three great big days of nothing.
I pinged my two teammates who were supposed to meet with me this week to hand me more work, but they're both "too busy" to meet with me.
So it's pretty much, "Find busywork to do for 3 days until your 16-day vacation."
Hmm...
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So it's pretty much, "Find busywork to do for 3 days until your 16-day vacation."
Hmm...
"That sounds like a D&D session.
"I'm vetting some voice actors
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Another day, another epiphany. I was reading this article about a publicly-available hacking tool, and I was thinking, "Wouldn't it be wonderful if the manufacturers, rather than the insurance companies, had to pay for losses caused by their negligent coding?"
Car theft victim: The guy just walked up, opened my car door as if he had the key, and drove off.
Insurance company rep: Hang on a sec... . OK. That's a demonstrable security flaw by the manufacturer. We'll be billing them and they'll send you full replacement cost for a brand new car.
Maybe, just maybe, if the responsible parties were actually held responsible, we'd see some changes in how cavalierly they treat security...
So it's pretty much, "Find busywork to do for 3 days until your 16-day vacation."
Hmm...
"That sounds like a D&D session.
"I'm vetting some voice actors
Well, the guy responded within 15 minutes of my asking that he'll get it taken care of today, so I can have my final video recorded, edited, and published tomorrow...
...but yes, indeedy, that leaves me with a pretty relaxing Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.
So it's pretty much, "Find busywork to do for 3 days until your 16-day vacation."
Hmm...
"That sounds like a D&D session.
"I'm vetting some voice actors
Well, the guy responded within 15 minutes of my asking that he'll get it taken care of today, so I can have my final video recorded, edited, and published tomorrow...
...but yes, indeedy, that leaves me with a pretty relaxing Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Fight the strong urge for paranoia that they're trying to prove your job isn't necessary?
Honest, that should have been my first sign at former Employer of long-term rot issues but the chance to relax at work was such a relief I didn't think to question it. That is, until I came back from vacation and discovered the new hire had quit, there was additional paperwork for me to do in addition to normal duties, and screwbar'd scheduling making it impossible to get anything done right.
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So it's pretty much, "Find busywork to do for 3 days until your 16-day vacation."
Hmm...
"That sounds like a D&D session.
"I'm vetting some voice actors
Well, the guy responded within 15 minutes of my asking that he'll get it taken care of today, so I can have my final video recorded, edited, and published tomorrow...
...but yes, indeedy, that leaves me with a pretty relaxing Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Fight the strong urge for paranoia that they're trying to prove your job isn't necessary?
Honest, that should have been my first sign at former Employer of long-term rot issues but the chance to relax at work was such a relief I didn't think to question it. That is, until I came back from vacation and discovered the new hire had quit, there was additional paperwork for me to do in addition to normal duties, and screwbar'd scheduling making it impossible to get anything done right.
Considering they shut down my department last year but made an executive decision of, "Oh, but not YOU. Let's find a place where we can keep YOU personally," I'm not particularly worried.
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After seeing this morning's latest U.S. intelligence leak, I'm sitting here aghast.
In the last what? 2 months? We've had some guy from the National Guard releasing documents on our activity in Ukraine. Some guy from the Navy sending all his diving buddies information about the navy's underwater listening capabilities. Now some guy leaking information about our monitoring of Russian communication.
They need to re-examine everything about how they manage intelligence, from what they mark as classified, to who gets access, to how they're trained, to what the punishments are.
Right now it's an embarrassment.
At this point I'd rather entrust my gossip-mongering mother with U.S. intelligence than anyone with a current U.S. security clearance.
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After seeing this morning's latest U.S. intelligence leak, I'm sitting here aghast.
In the last what? 2 months? We've had some guy from the National Guard releasing documents on our activity in Ukraine. Some guy from the Navy sending all his diving buddies information about the navy's underwater listening capabilities. Now some guy leaking information about our monitoring of Russian communication.
They need to re-examine everything about how they manage intelligence, from what they mark as classified, to who gets access, to how they're trained, to what the punishments are.
Right now it's an embarrassment.
At this point I'd rather entrust my gossip-mongering mother with U.S. intelligence than anyone with a current U.S. security clearance.
And yet, these recent stories will still more than likely face stiffer punishments than someone who was several orders of magnitude worse in terms of secure material handling by virtue of being able to BS most folks and delay, delay, delay until folks forget (or cannot pay) to deal with that someone anymore.
EDIT:
If *I* had handled classified material in the same way the former Chief Executive had, I would never have even MADE it to the forums here.
I would have vanished and/or been breaking rocks at a federal institution (or in solitary confinement) for pretty much the rest of my life.
BEST CASE situation would have been a Dishonorable Discharge and being put on a watch list for pretty much every government agency AND law enforcement watching for me to sneeze the wrong direction so they could take me in for public expectoration.
It's all a game to make the former Chief Executive look like 'he did nothing wrong'.
And it pisses me the heck off.
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Considering they shut down my department last year but made an executive decision of, "Oh, but not YOU. Let's find a place where we can keep YOU personally," I'm not particularly worried.
So it's pretty much, "Find busywork to do for 3 days until your 16-day vacation."
Hmm...
"That sounds like a D&D session.
"I'm vetting some voice actors
Well, the guy responded within 15 minutes of my asking that he'll get it taken care of today, so I can have my final video recorded, edited, and published tomorrow...
...but yes, indeedy, that leaves me with a pretty relaxing Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Fight the strong urge for paranoia that they're trying to prove your job isn't necessary?
Honest, that should have been my first sign at former Employer of long-term rot issues but the chance to relax at work was such a relief I didn't think to question it. That is, until I came back from vacation and discovered the new hire had quit, there was additional paperwork for me to do in addition to normal duties, and screwbar'd scheduling making it impossible to get anything done right.
They hired a guy that's supposed to handle all our logistics for our department. Except every time I've asked him to get me something or get something delivered he took so long to do it I ended up doing it or arranging the deliveries myself. But he still tried to stop by my job site every day to see if I needed anything or to pick my brain. So I told the boss to basically keep him away from me.
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Well, after everything I've taught them about debt, Impus Major wants to go to med school so he can become a forensic pathologist, and at $263k for an M.D. from even a state school, that's a giant chunk-o-debt.
On the other hand, it's apparently a massively in-demand career, because for some reason people don't get M.D.s to work with dead bodies all that much. So IF he can even get into a med school, and IF he can get a student loan, and IF he can get an M.D., he'll make more money than I ever have, and he'll be able to pay off his student loan relatively quickly.
In the meantime, with all those IFs in the air, I'll just be supportive, let him chart his course, and see how far he actually gets on it. Should be a fun ride.
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and, of course, it's had the side effect of showing me just how much i loathe going back to my particular job . . . . and i'm about 4 hours away from starting my commute.
i've also nicely solidified my homebrew game system and have launched a highly successful regular session. i've gone from three players to five over the course of three weeks' time, and my players have asked for two triple-header weekends . . . . maybe i've just found the right group for my style, or perhaps i've finally hit my stride as a GM.
but i've had such a good time grilling a series of lunches for my family over the last couple of months, and then running some "math-rocks make-believe" sessions for some friends and acquaintances that i want to put the two together, say "to hell with the safe path", and become an itinerant GM-for-hire that grills food as a side hustle.
totally outlandish, i know.
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** spoiler omitted **
Yeah, people in my age bracket say things like, "I can't possibly retire! I don't know what I'd do with myself!"
I'm firmly in my mother's boat: "Now that I'm retired, I'm so busy I have no idea how I ever managed to fit in any work at all!"
Retirement can't come soon enough for me, but, being in California, I'll likely be working 'til I'm 70...
...unless, of course, Impus Major's med school plans pay off and we can move into HIS basement...
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NobodysHome: Why do they keep giving me these completely unteachable courses to rewrite and refurbish?
NobodysHome: Oh, right. That is quite literally my job.
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...unless, of course, Impus Major's med school plans pay off and we can move into HIS basement...
Are you SURE you want to be in his basement given his particular plans for med school?
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...unless, of course, Impus Major's med school plans pay off and we can move into HIS basement...Are you SURE you want to be in his basement given his particular plans for med school?
BigNorseWolf gets cookies.
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NobodysHome: Why do they keep giving me these completely unteachable courses to rewrite and refurbish?
NobodysHome: Oh, right. That is quite literally my job.
But, hey, instantly less boredom!
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Three. More. Work. Days.
We leave in 84.5 hours.
Freakin' Cañada sending their wildfire smoke down here. Keep it in NYC where it belongs!!!
Had to close up the house and turn on the AC in my room on what was otherwise an incredibly pleasant day because the MapleSmoke was making my lungs close and nose clog.
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Headline in the San Francisco Chronicle: "A dangerous heat wave is expected to hit Northern California later this week..."
Weather Underground: "Yeah, you might get into the 70s by Thursday..."
Even weirder. "Temperatures are expected to hit 100 in the Central Valley, 90 inland, and high 70s or low 80s around the bay."
Er... in other words, "Absolutely normal weather for July, instead of the eternal darkness and cold we've been living in all Spring and early Summer?"
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I swear, some people are so obsessed with you following their norms that it gets downright ridiculous.
As everyone who knows me knows, I do not use my cell phone for phone calls. I own one, because it's required to have one in a modern urban area, but other than text messages and required apps it pretty much sits unloved on a counter all day every day. I was ecstatic when I learned that I could completely disable call notifications so I don't even know when calls come in, allowing me to completely ignore my cell phone as a "phone".
My land line is right behind me. Call my land line and I'll turn around, check caller ID, and if I know you I'll pick up. Call my cell phone and it'll likely be days before I know you called.
Even my 75-to-92-year-old parents and in-laws know this and use my land line exclusively.
So yesterday I got a call from one of GothBard's friends (on my land line) taking me to task, telling me in no uncertain terms that I had to start answering my cell phone, and I was incredibly rude for not doing so, and what if there was an emergency, and whatnot.
I pointed out that she'd reached me on my land line in under 10 seconds, and no, I would not be turning on my phone just to satisfy her desire to harass me by cell.
I don't want to own a cell phone. It's a necessary evil. So don't take me to task if I don't use it the way you want me to.
EDIT:
So the demand really is, "Accept a call at appalling quality that'll likely be incomprehensible or cut off because my phone calls your cell phone by default and I can't be bothered to switch the default to your land line."
Nope.
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So yesterday I got a call from one of GothBard's friends (on my land line) taking me to task, telling me in no uncertain terms that I had to start answering my cell phone, and I was incredibly rude for not doing so, and what if there was an emergency, and whatnot.
What did GothBard say on the matter?
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What did GothBard say on the matter?
So yesterday I got a call from one of GothBard's friends (on my land line) taking me to task, telling me in no uncertain terms that I had to start answering my cell phone, and I was incredibly rude for not doing so, and what if there was an emergency, and whatnot.
I told her about it and she laughed and said, "Yeah, everybody knows that if they want to get in touch with you they need to call me. I don't know why she didn't."
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I swear, some people are so obsessed with you following their norms that it gets downright ridiculous.A very long time ago, when answering machines were still a new consumer device, I was in a job that required me to be reachable by a lot of strangers. I was often told that people couldn't reach me by phone and it was affecting my performance rating.
So I bought an answering machine and plugged it into the phone jack that connected to my landline. People could now leave me messages, even during dinner!
But it turned out that that wasn't enough. What people wanted was for me to be instantly accessible at the moment they wanted to talk to me. And listening to a message at my convenience was not what they wanted me to do.
OMG I feel that pain. No one will leave a message any more. One of Impus Major's friends even said outright, "If I have to leave you a message, then you're not my friend."
Serious entitlement much?I'm not going to voluntarily wear a GPS tracking device. You'll have to get a court order to compel me. And I still drive a car without surveillance hardware.
Amusingly enough, Impus Major appreciates that I can track him so he feels better when he forgets to text.
And yeah, my cars are 27 and 17 years old, respectively. Network connectivity isn't their thing.
I will never understand people who want "smart" devices. "Smart" = "You are being monitored 24/7, and you've granted even mediocre hackers full unrestricted access to that area of your life."
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As someone that worked his way through a speech impediment and is dyslexic answering machines is my bane, so I totally agree with if I have to leave a message you're not friend kid. That said, I absolutely love texting so that's the best way to get a hold of me.
True story:
Former Employer Manager would spam the bejesus out of my pay-as-you-go phone despite my repeated tellings that it *cost me money* every time he did.
So I told him to leave a message on my machine (which he refused to do because that'd be documentation of how incompetent he was).
So the day before Thanksgiving '22 he tried to text me a dozen times to tell me to come in later to work -- I turned off my phone, and went to work on my regular schedule because clearly he wasn't listening to me, why should I listen to him?
He was not happy about that.
He then tried to tell me that I needed to keep my phone on 24/7 in case of emergencies.
That's when I erased all of the texts (after copying them to a text file) and blocked his number.
"Did you get the text I sent?" "Nope. Phone's been acting weird, sorry."
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It just keeps getting better.
Impus Major: Alright, Father, I'm going out.
IM: But before that I'm putting on a third layer.
EDIT: We've also turned the heat back on in the core of the house, and I may have to turn on the living room heat this afternoon if my hands don't warm up.
Had my first ever zoom meeting on the 15th.
Got to work early, started setting my pavers for a circle, left at about 8, got divorced, and went back to work and finished laying down the rest of the pavers for the circle.
Also, I think I got a raise.
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Well damn that's good!
Got to work early, started setting my pavers for a circle, left at about 8, got divorced, and went back to work and finished laying down the rest of the pavers for the circle.Huh? Is that a reading comprehension trick test?
I assure you I barely understand what the word "comprehension" even means.
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Q. How many eels did a small cottage in 14th century England cost?
A. 3,000 eels.
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Q. How many eels did a small cottage in 14th century England cost?
A. 3,000 eels.
Were they in a hovercraft?
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Had my first ever zoom meeting on the 15th.
Got to work early, started setting my pavers for a circle, left at about 8, got divorced, and went back to work and finished laying down the rest of the pavers for the circle.
As if I wouldn't notice that attempt to gloss over something unpleasant.
Also, I think I got a raise.
That all depends on the terms of your divorce.
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Had my first ever zoom meeting on the 15th.
Got to work early, started setting my pavers for a circle, left at about 8, got divorced, and went back to work and finished laying down the rest of the pavers for the circle.
As if I wouldn't notice that attempt to gloss over something unpleasant.
Also, I think I got a raise.That all depends on the terms of your divorce.
It was a very civilized and relatively pain free divorce so no support is owed to either side.